acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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aim | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aspire, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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(verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: propose, purport, purpose |
(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: calculate, direct |
(verb) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal | - |
(verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: drive, get |
(verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: direct, take, take aim, train |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: direct, place, point, target |
aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
animate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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approximate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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(verb) make similar | - |
(verb) become similar in sound | - |
(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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(verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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(verb) be completely full | - |
calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
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claim | (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
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(verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
(verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
(verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
(verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
climax | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
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climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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(verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
(verb) improve one's social status | - |
(verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
(verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
(verb) slope upward | - |
collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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(verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
compliment | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
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(verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
counterclaim | (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
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criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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(verb) treat as a criminal | - |
criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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(verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
crimp | (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
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(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: pinch |
crimson | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
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decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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(verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
dim | (verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
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(verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
(verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
(verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
(verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
dimension | (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
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(verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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(verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
dimple | (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
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(verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
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(verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
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(verb) distinguish | - |
(verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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(verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
(verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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(verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
(verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
(verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
(verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
(verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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estimate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
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(verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |
experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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(verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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gimp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: hitch, hobble, limp |
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glimmer | (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
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glimpse | (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
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grimace | (verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state | Synonyms: make a face, pull a face |
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grime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, soil |
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guesstimate | (verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
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image | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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(verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
(verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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(verb) place so as to overlap | - |
imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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(verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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(verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
(verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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(verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
(verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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(verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
(verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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immix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, meld, merge, mix |
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immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
(verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
(verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
(verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
(verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
(verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
immolate | (verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction | - |
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immortalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalize |
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(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
immunise | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinate |
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(verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunize |
immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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(verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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(verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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(verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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(verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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(verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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(verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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(verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
(verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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(verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
impel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: propel |
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(verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: force |
impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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(verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
(verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
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(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
(verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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(verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
(verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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(verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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(verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
(verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
(verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
(verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
import | (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
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(verb) bring in from abroad | - |
(verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |